With the 2014 Dahlonega Literary Festival only 10 months away, we’re starting to get our visiting authors lined up. We are happy to announce the first set of authors confirmed to be part of 10th annual festival!
The Dahlonega Literary Festival is an annual celebration of books. The next festival will take place in March 7-9, 2014. Situated in Historic Downtown Dahlonega, the festival continues to grow and become more and more entertaining as the years go on. We promise that it will delight anyone who is a lover of books and reading. All festival events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
Each year the festival presents a slate of invited authors representing a variety of genres sharing their ideas and experiences in various programs. In addition, a number of regional authors (ranging from local to other areas of the Southeast) have the opportunity to purchase a table to both interact with festival attendees and sell their books.
We are a festival of books, not just a festival with books
You can now view the whole schedule for the 9th Annual Dahlonega Literary Festival! Simply CLICK HERE and plan out your visit!
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Applications for Regional Author booths are now closed. The last few notifications will be going out this week. Thanks to everyone who applied!
Keep checking the Local/Regional Authors page for the latest attendees.
Author and Georgia native Nick Wynne will be the speaker at this year’s Saturday Night Extravaganza! He will be speaking on “Humor in the Heartland: Writing about Everyday People.”
Nick Wynne
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Nick Wynne is a Georgia native, who now resides in Florida. A three-time University of Georgia graduate, he was a college professor for twenty years and served as the Executive Director of the Florida Historical Society for twenty-one years. He retired in 2008. Nick is the author, co-author, or editor of a dozen or more historical books, a cookbook, a collection of fiction stories for young adults, and three novels. He has just completed a fourth novel, which will be published in October, and is finalizing another history book on the Great Depression in Florida.
This year’s Extravaganza will be held on November 10th. Location and time are to be determined.
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The 4th of July Used book sale will be July 4th in downtown Dahlonega. Come visit our booth on the square and load up on books! All proceeds go to funding the Dahlonega Literary Festival.
Want to donate books for the sale? Contact Fran Barr, solari1628@yahoo.com.
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This year, we’ve had to change up the venues where our events will be held. Most of the events will take place at the Continuing Education building at North Georgia College & State University. The building is located on Chestatee Street, next to the Dairy Queen (and across the street from the university’s main campus entrance). Children’s events will take place at the Lumpkin County Library. More details will come as we get closer to November.
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Did you know that The StinkyKids, creation of festival author Britt Menzies, is also an Off Broadway Musical? Starring Kari Grunberg, Ryan Mikita, Lora Nicolas, AJ Patton, Bryce Payne and Madison Turner, StinkyKids the Musical runs from March 10 to May 26, 2012.
Read the Official StinkyKids the Musical Press Release Here
For more information on the Musical, visit the Vital Theatre Company’s website: http://vitaltheatre.org.
Want to know more about the StinkyKids books and products, please visit: http://stinkykids.com/
StinkyKids the Musical
From the Vitaltheatre.org website
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We are happy to announce that Carole Marsh will be attending the Dahlonega Literary Festival and participating in our children’s events. Carole is the author of the Carole Marsh Mysteries.
From her Blog:
“Carole Marsh is a highly-entrepreneurial writer, CEO of Gallopade International, creator of Carole Marsh Mysteries and hundreds of other series, and author of thousands of books, winner of numerous awards, and a Georgia Author of the Year. “These days, I’m most interested in writing for what I call “Twixt, Tween, and YA,” which to me, like “gifted kids” are ALL kids! I love to write for them and hear from them. I am also writing adult fiction and non-fiction, short stories, and poetry. For more than 30 years, Marsh has written almost 100 educational and fun adventure mysteries for boys and girls 7-14. “My readers are growing up and I am growing up with them—though we all intend to be fun-loving, energetic, creative, out-of-the box ‘fourth-graders’ forever!”
For more information on Carole Marsh and her books, visit: http://www.gallopade.com/client/client_pages/carolemarshmysteries2.html
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It’s official. Word has come down and we’re sticking with the moniker of “Dahlonega Literary Festival.” Thanks for all the input, everyone! Your comments and poll choices definitely helped push the non-change! And while we had some support for our wildcard choices of “The Buy J. F. Lewis’s Book Festival” and “Dahlonegapalooza,” it was the traditional “Dahlonega Literary Festival” that won the most hearts. So we don’t have to worry about our initials changing to “DBF” which would just get confusing (since Decatur Book Festival has the same).
We are Literary, and we are proud!
And fun!
